Re: [sudo-discuss] privacy and violations; nym rights and other.

Quick note, it is probably better to say the IRC channel is not KNOWN to be logged. Tons of people log IRC privately for later perusal or other reasons, and there's no way for any other IRC user to know if an inactive user is a logging bot. In fact, I know plenty of people who interact with IRC through a logging system of some kind, so the difference between a human user and a logger isn't even distinct. Someone's comment of, if you want it to be private, don't put it on the Internet, is reasonable. Even email goes through any number of servers on its way to its intended recipient, and you have no idea which of these is keeping copies. Unless you are rigorous about using encryption, *and* really know what you're doing (I don't, that shit's hard), expect any electronic communication you make to be possibly readable by some entity you don't know about, including governments, your ISP's help staff, hackers, grad students, botnet operators, your mom (she doesn't mean to snoop but you never TELL her anything). Of course, even Google is gonna have an extraordinarily hard time identifying, finding and collating it all; I do not want to sound too alarmist here. The needle/haystack issue, which any attempt to track an individual will run into, is also a *really* difficult one. Rachel M